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As a maker, I've been following Adafruit since they sold a handful of products, probably assembled and boxed on Limor's dining room table. Adafruit has forked
by bityard 11mo ago
As a maker, I've been following Adafruit since they sold a handful of products, probably assembled and boxed on Limor's dining room table.
Adafruit has forked microcontroller libraries and toolchains before, and a huge chunk of their success has been directly due to Arduino and related things. So it will not surprise me if they are gearing up to announce their brand-spanking new Arduino-compatible devices, software, and ecosystem.
They could call it Adaduino.
- ptorrone 11mo agoFruitDuino was taken
- jsheard 11mo agoAdafruit already sells own-brand Arduino clones. They have a whole line of Uno-shaped boards with various microcontrollers, some drop-in compatible with the original Uno, and others with more modern chips. https://www.adafruit.com/category/818 https://www.adafruit.com/category/818
- bityard 11mo agoI know, I'm talking about the rest.
- jononor 11mo agoAdafruit also created and maintains CircuitPython, which is targeted very much at the same audience as Arduino. Very beginner friendly, great for quick prototyping/one-offs, but serious enough that one can ship small scale projects with it. And Python is a much better language for that than C++ (which is what Arduino users do not really realize they are using).